Item category 1: Christmas

Twenty-one stories first published in Household Words and its successor All the Year Round.

Dickens' classic Christmastide story in which the mean Scrooge is converted to compassion and care by a series of ghostly visitations from the ghosts of Christmas past, Christmas present and Christmas future.

This nostalgic record of bygone days features material from the Christmas issues of "Good Housekeeping" magazine, 1922 to 1962. Recipes, fables, gift ideas and articles by writers such as Somerset Maugham and Rose Macaulay provide a panoramic view of changing attitudes, fashions and lifestyles.